Manufacturing Improvements in Business Central
Business Central continues to evolve as a powerful manufacturing platform, and the latest round of improvements brings meaningful enhancements that give manufacturers more control, flexibility, and visibility across the production process. In this session, Microsoft expert Andrew Good walks through several key updates from how you manage item variants and warehouse picking to labeling serialized output and editing journals in Excel, all designed to reduce workarounds and streamline day-to-day manufacturing operations.
Key Takeaways
- Item Variant Blocking: You can now block specific item variants from being produced, ideal for engineering change management when phasing out a color or style, while still allowing sales to continue to clear remaining inventory.
- Granular Warehouse Pick Controls: The Yellow location setup demonstrates new options for controlling how components reach the production floor, including mandatory or optional warehouse picks, over-picking allowances for full-box quantities, and the ability to skip picks for manually flushed, line-side items.
- Reopen Finished Production Orders: A finished production order can now be reopened once to post additional consumption, capacity, or correct output quantities, with costing and item tracking fully preserved throughout the process.
- Serialized Output Labels: Production orders now support printing labels (via Word layout) for serialized or lot-tracked output, complete with 2D QR codes and 1D serial number barcodes, eliminating the need for customizations or third-party tools.
- Document Attachments on Production Orders: Just like sales and purchase orders, you can now attach external files directly to production orders and allow them to flow through to related transactions.
- Edit Journals in Excel: Production and consumption journals can now be edited in Excel and published back into Business Central, with all validation rules enforced, offering a flexible alternative for bulk adjustments.
